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United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1811
Events from the year 1811 in the United Kingdom . This is a
census year and the start of the
British Regency .
Incumbents
Events
1 February –
Bell Rock Lighthouse begins operation off the coast of
Scotland .
[1]
5 February –
George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent
[1] under terms of the Regency Act because of the perceived insanity of his father, King
George III .
[2] He is known as the Prince Regent and this is the beginning of the
Regency period.
[3]
21 February – The John and Jane , carrying troops bound for the
Peninsular War , is accidentally run down and sunk by HMS Franchise off
Lizard Point, Cornwall with the loss of a majority of the 300 on board.
[4]
22 February – Editor
Leigh Hunt and his publisher brother
John , defended by
Henry Brougham , are cleared of
seditious libel over a September 1810 article in their newspaper,
The Examiner , criticising
flogging in the Army.
[5]
13 March –
Battle of Lissa : British fleet defeats the French.
25–27 March –
Battle of Anholt : British naval forces defeat those of
Denmark .
4 April –
Huddersfield Narrow Canal completed by opening of
Standedge Tunnel under the
Pennines , the longest (5,413 yards (4,950 m)), deepest and highest canal tunnel in Britain.
[6]
27 May – The second national
Census reveals that the population of
England and Wales has increased in ten years by over a million to 10.1 million.
[7]
10 June – A
volcanic eruption , observed from
Royal Navy
sloop
HMS Sabrina (1806) , creates
Sabrina Island (Azores) which on 4 July is claimed for Britain; a few months later it sinks beneath the sea.
18 June – The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists leave the established Church of England by ordaining their own ministers in Bala, North Wales.
19 June – The
Carlton House Fête is held at
Carlton House in
London . A costly and extravagant event it celebrated the beginning of the
Regency era .
8 September – The first known landing on
Rockall is made by a party from
HMS Endymion .
[8]
[9]
16 October –
National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales established by the
Church of England to promote a system of
National Schools .
November –
Luddite uprisings begin in
northern England and
Midlands .
[10]
4 December – Royal Navy
frigate
HMS Saldanha (1809) is driven in a gale onto rocks in
Lough Swilly in Ireland with no survivors from the estimated 253 aboard.
[11]
7–19 December –
Ratcliff Highway murders in
London .
24 December – Christmas Eve storm in the
North Sea leads to wreck of
HMS St George ,
Defence and Fancy off
Jutland ; and
HMS Hero and the transport Archimedes off
Texel with the loss of nearly 2,000 men.
[12]
Ongoing
Undated
Publications
Jane Austen 's novel
Sense and Sensibility ('by a lady').
Francis Place 's Illustrations and Proofs of the Principles of Population, including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others , the first significant text in English to advocate
contraception .
[16]
Births
9 January –
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , writer (died 1856)
1 February –
Arthur Hallam , poet (died 1833)
[17]
6 February –
Henry Liddell , academic and cleric (died 1898)
24 February –
Edward Dickinson Baker , United States Senator from Oregon from 1860 (died
1861 in the United States )
21 March –
Nathaniel Woodard , educationalist (died 1891)
[18]
7 June –
James Simpson , Scottish obstetrician and pioneer of anaesthesia (died 1870)
13 June –
Owen Stanley , Royal Navy officer (died 1850)
11 July –
William Robert Grove , Welsh chemist, inventor (died 1896)
[19]
13 July
18 July –
William Makepeace Thackeray , novelist (died 1863)
14 September –
William Budd , physician and epidemiologist (died 1880)
[21]
31 October –
William Loring , admiral (died 1895)
[22]
8 November –
John Tarleton , admiral (died 1880)
[23]
21 December –
Archibald Campbell Tait ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1882)
Deaths
9 February –
Nevil Maskelyne , Astronomer Royal (born 1732)
24 February –
James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan , politician (born 1715)
[24]
14 March –
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton ,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1735)
[25]
4 April –
Mary Woffington , Irish socialite (b. 1729)
[26]
5 May –
Robert Mylne , architect (born 1734)
[27]
7 May –
Richard Cumberland , dramatist (born 1732)
28 May –
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville , Scottish politician, Home Secretary for Great Britain (born 1742)
[28]
29 July –
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (born 1748)
[29]
30 September –
Thomas Percy , poet, ballad collector and bishop (born 1729)
[30]
15 October – Sir
Nathaniel Dance-Holland , portrait painter and politician (born 1735)
27 November –
Andrew Meikle , Scottish mechanical engineer (born 1719)
[31]
21 December –
Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet , Admiral of the Fleet (born 1721 in Ireland)
31 December –
Benjamin Vulliamy , clockmaker (born 1747)
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